Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s efforts to overhaul how children get vaccines took a major step forward. An advisory committee voted to narrow hepatitis B immunization guidance for newborns.

The change upends decades of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance and goes against widespread public health ...

The committee, which has formed a working group to look at the entire childhood vaccine schedule, began that discussion on Friday with a presentation by Aaron Siri, a lawyer who is close to Mr.

A panel of US vaccine advisers voted to rescind a recommendation that all newborns should receive a hepatitis B vaccine at ...

MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES THE DIRECTOR OF THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION SUBJECT:       Aligning United ...

The change represents a continued shift in the agency’s vaccine policy, reflecting increasingly skeptical views.

Upending decades-old guidance, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine advisory committee voted to no longer ...

For decades, the government has advised that all babies be vaccinated against the liver infection right after birth.

The federal vaccine advisory panel, all appointed by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., voted to drop the universal ...

Vaccine advisers to the CDC took action on vaccination of newborns against hepatitis B and questioned the overall childhood vaccination schedule and ingredients that boost some vaccines' potency.

Last year was the most severe flu season in over a decade in the United States. And this year, a new strain of the flu is ...

Hospitals for decades have provided babies their first hepatitis B vaccine. Now doctors' offices might administer the shot.